On the last day of this year, I want to share just one more post:
Our Find of the Year 2012!
We have been searching for over one year, and now we have finally found our new family home! Papers are already signed, we are waiting for the keys. It’s the right house with the turret and veranda, built in 1913. Many of the original Art Nouveau details are still there, and we plan to restore the ones that have been removed over the past 100 years.
I am totally in love with the thought of living in this old house together, giving our 3 children each their own room, and decorating all rooms with love. I can almost smell the flavours coming from our kitchen as there seems to be a pie in the oven. And I can hear the tinkling of glasses during our endless dinner parties with our best friends; I can even imagine our future grand-children running around in this house! Don’t you just love it too!?!
Best wishes for a New Year filled with warmth, peace, and cherished memories!
Congratulations! Your passion about art nouveau is the greatest ….I never saw anyone as passionate as you !
I wish you and your family a wonderful 2013 ! I am sure we will see your beautiful home in many future posts !
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Thanks for your warm replies always, and your nominations! You are right about my passionate love for Art Nouveau. But I also love photography, writing, webdesign, traveling, antropology, history, etc… So all my passions comes together here in my blog…. And it becomes kind of a very concentrated mass…
Best wishes to you and your loved ones as well!
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I am deep deep green with envy 🙂
Keep us informed about your progress!
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Dear KleesButterfly, thank you for your kind ‘envy’.
We received the keys mid 2013 and have been restoring the house for 1,5 year now. All the damaged walls & ceilings have been stripped and plastered, the lead piping has been replaced, solar panels are placed on the roof, we are designing a period kitchen, and currently we are sandpapering & painting everything… etc. etc. etc.
We hope to be able to move within this year!
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Sounds like much work, but I’m sure it’ll be worth it in the end. I hope you’ll spoil us with some photos when it’s finished 🙂
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